David John Seymour Hill MB BS, FRACP

October 8, 2014

Med J Aust 2014; 201 (7): 408.

doi:10.5694/mja14.01025

Author: Ian Darnton-Hill

David Hill was born in Melbourne on 15 July 1944. When he was 9 years old, his family moved to Mt Gambier, South Australia, where his father was a general practitioner and his mother was the first social worker. As a child, David always intended to be a doctor.

From the age of 11, David attended boarding school at Prince Alfred College in Adelaide, where he was a prefect.

David studied medicine at the University of Adelaide, living at St Mark’s College. After graduating in 1969, he was a resident medical officer at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. He completed a further residency year at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital, where he subsequently worked as a paediatric registrar. In 1976, he moved to Dunedin, New Zealand, where he was Senior Paediatric Registrar at Dunedin Hospital and a lecturer with the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Otago.

On returning to Adelaide in 1977, he was Senior Visiting Paediatrician at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital, Flinders Medical Centre and Regency Park Centre for Young Disabled. Concurrently, he conducted a private practice in North Adelaide. He also worked as a consultant paediatrician in Mt Gambier from 1987 to 1994.

From 1995 to 2002, he was Director of Paediatrics at Toowoomba Hospital and a visiting specialist to surrounding clinics and hospitals. He returned to Mt Gambier to practise as a consultant paediatrician as well as being a visiting paediatrician…